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“Software is eating the world.” That was the bold proclamation renowned innovator and venture capitalist Marc Andreessen expressed in an article he wrote for the Wall Street Journal. More and more businesses are being run by software, he argued, or are differentiating themselves and disrupting their competitors and industries using the same. Today, that article […]
During my time in the IT industry, I’ve seen many changes in the way that services are discussed with customers. If I were to identify a single overarching trend over the last 15 years, I would say that the transition from discussing “capabilities” to discussing “solutions” is the most significant. But like all things in […]
DXC recently released six digital trends that will drive the market in 2019. In my previous post, I addressed three trends that center around “data gravity.” In this post, I want to tie together the other three trends: Enterprises adopt next generation IoT platforms. Enterprises enter an age of information enlightenment. Enterprises redesign customer experiences […]
DXC recently identified six digital trends that will drive the market in 2019. I want to describe how these trends will impact the Asia market in a two-part blog series. In this first post, I address these three digital trends: Enterprises go after digital business moonshots. Action at the edge disrupts the cloud. Enterprises begin […]
Continuing our sharing of DXC Cares stories, this one is about helping disadvantaged children in Vietnam. Read this inspirational story from Trinh Dang, one of the volunteers. On International Children’s Day of Vietnam, June 1, 2017, DXC Vietnam employees visited the children currently being raised at Hung Phuoc Pagoda in Ben Tre (about 120 kilometers […]
Only one in 86 people in Myanmar hold an insurance policy today, according to UK research firm Timetric. But with the country’s insurance market set to undergo some degree of liberalisation at the end of 2017 — and with a population of 55 million people — the potential for growth is exponential as insurance penetration increases over the next […]
Some may view a transition to Software as a Service (SaaS) as simply the “cloudification” of applications. But in many cases, SaaS delivers richer, more relevant features and functions than packaged applications, while also presenting an opportunity to restructure and eliminate gaps. SaaS is software that is owned, delivered and managed remotely over a network. […]
IDC predicts that in 2017, 25 percent of Software as a Service (SaaS) implementation projects won’t meet cost-savings goals, while 12.5 percent won’t meet key business goals. With more than $37 billion expected to be spent globally on SaaS in 2016 and even more expected in 2017, the cost of failure is staggering. For startups with a limited […]
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) is the most mature of all the cloud pillars and is offered by many providers. With IaaS, providers rent out computer hardware — servers, network technology, storage and data center space — so that organizations don’t have to buy it and install it in their own data centers. Customers can provision […]